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Flight Readiness Review (FRR) Student Launch Project. User notes: The purpose of the flight readiness review is to determine if your experiment is ready to fly. If it is not ready – it will not fly You must have built your experiment and completed all pre-flight testing
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Flight Readiness Review (FRR) Student Launch Project • User notes: • The purpose of the flight readiness review is to determine if your experiment is ready to fly. If it is not ready – it will not fly • You must have built your experiment and completed all pre-flight testing • This is an update of your proposal analysis review – start with what you submitted and add information as requested
Flight Readiness Review (FRR) Student Launch Project Experiment Name School Name Teacher Name Student’s Names
Number of Guests Who Will Attend the Launch at Spaceport America Number of teachers Number of students Number of administrations/parents/chaperons Total number of guests
Mission Overview • What is your mission objective? • What do you expect to prove, discover, or learn from your experiment? • What is your hypothesis • Brief overview of underlying science/theory • What other related research/experimentation has been done in the past?
Experiment Description • Describe your experiment – What will it do • What is the purpose of your experiment • What kind of data will you collect • How will you collect data
Experiment Drawing • Draw the dimensions of your experiment and how it will fit onto the experiment plate. • Include height, width, length, of all components • See example on next page
Experiment Drawing Example Batteries 1.0” Height 2.0” Wide 1.75” Long Z-Accel 1.0” Height 1.75” Wide 1.0” Length ½ Z-Accel 3.0” 3.5” 1.5” Height 1.5” Height AVR Board Geiger Board Batteries 3.25” 4.25” ½ inch hole for wiring G-Switch 1.5” Height 1.0” Wide 1.75” Length G-switch Standoffs (4) Front
Picture of Experiment • Insert a picture of your experiment – label all parts • See sample below Vibrating plate On switch Data loggers Camera Lights Battery
Test Plans • Describe what testing you did on your payload pre-flight? • What was the results for your pre-flight tests? • What change did you make to your experiment based on testing • If you collected data during testing include • copy of the test data • analysis of test data
Payload Canister Compliance • State your experiment’s height in Inches (Experiment must be less than 2.0” in height) • State your experiments weight in Pounds – include all components, including batteries
Payload Activation • If you need to turn your payload on, give specific instructions on how to turn on your payload.
Conclusions • Issues or concerns • What else do you need to plan for • Closing remarks
SubmissionFlight Readiness Review (FRR) • Save your flight readiness review (FRR) as follows: Filename: FRR_schoolname_teacher name Example: FRR_LynnMS_JudyMcShannon • Email to: jmcshann@nmsu.edu • Date Due: February 17, 2012